Quote of the Day for 2016-07-27

"In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits which the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils which it engenders."

— Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) Democracy in America, volume 1, chapter 3 (1835)

Front page of the New York Post after Hillary Clinton admonished Senator Ron Johnson during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the Benghazi terrorist attack (January 24, 2013)

Quote of the Day for 2016-07-22

"All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the massage. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments."

— Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) The Medium is the Massage, page 26 (1967)

Pages 4 and 5 from the book, graphic design by Quentin Fiore